04-06-2009, 06:01 PM
Bob C Wrote:Russ, looking at Wayne's first pic, you can see why torpedo GPs don't have dynamic brakes. There are 4 tanks on top (small diameter to keep the profile low), which would have interfered with the fan and resistor bank fairings. Dynamic wasn't a popular option for passenger power, as it wasn't terribly reliable in that time period and caused slack action (to the discomfort of passengers)...Sure looked cool, though! Bob C.
I figured that dynamics would not work with the torpedo tubes due to clearance and perhaps overheating issues, but I was afraid that as soon as I said that the passenger equipped Gp7 or 9 versus dynamics was an either/or proposition, someone would come up with a pic to show that I was wrong. I just knew that I have quite a bit of reference material for the Santa Fe in the 1930's-1950's and never saw steam generators or "tropedo tubes" on any unit equipped with dynamic brakes.